
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004323Noah's Ark
Provenance
Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave (1762–1846), Paris [stamp (Lugt 2598), recto, lower left, in blue]; sold, Alliance des Arts, Dec. 6, 1842 [stamp (Lugt 61), recto, lower left, in blue]. Possibly F. van den Zande; sold, Hôtel des Commissaires Priseurs, Paris, Apr. 30, 1855, lot 3042 [Dutuit 1885 and Cambridge, Mass. 1960]. M. Denesle. Sold, Paris, Mar. 30, 1860. Guillaume de Gontaut (1859–1939), Marquis de Biron; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June, 9–11 1914, lot 50. Paul Mathey (1844–1929), Paris [Benesch 1957]. Alfred Strölin (1871–1954) or his son Alfred Strölin (1912–1974), Paris and Lausanne, by 1925 [Valentiner 1925]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.
Exhibition history
Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Bern, Rembrandt, Apr. 18–May 30, 1937, p. 45, cat. 204. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Rembrandt, May 18–Aug. 5, 1956, cat. 248, pl. 68; also Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Aug. 8–Oct. 21, 1956. New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Mar. 15–Apr. 16, 1960, pp. 53–54, cat. 75, pl. 68; also Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Apr. 27–May 29, 1960. New York, Wildenstein and Company, Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17–Nov. 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 33, pl. 13b. Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Rembrandt: The Bible in Art and Archaeology, Drawings and Etchings, May 11–Jun. 28, 1965, n.p., cat. 3 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years, Oct.25–Dec.7, 1969, pp. 177 and 230 (ill.), cat. 139; also the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Dec. 22, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 24–Apr. 5, 1970. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, Oct. 26, 2003–Jan. 18, 2004, pp. 259, 263 (ill.)–65 and 329, cat. 178; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 14–May 9, 2004. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 30, 73, 76-77 (ill.), 78, 309, cat. 24, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Eugéne Dutuit, Tableaux et Dessins de Rembrandt, Supplément à l’oeuvre complet de Rembrandt (Paris: A. Lévy, 1885), p. 105 (as Old Testament subject with seven figures). Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts (New York: E. Weyhe, 1925), vol. 1, p. 10, pl. 6 (ill.). Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung (Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1935), p. 62. Jakob Rosenberg, Rembrandt (Cambridge, 1948), vol I: 213, fig. 278. Harold Joachim, "Three Drawings by Rembrandt," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, vol 48:1 (February 1954), pp. 11–13 (ill.). Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London: Phaidon, 1957), vol 5, no. 1045, fig. 1329. Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time (New York,: Shorewood Publishers, Inc., 1962), vol. II, no. 597 (ill.). Walther Scheidig, Rembrandt als Zeichner (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1962), p. 67, pl. 170. Hans-Martin Rotermund, Rembrandts Handzeichnungen und Radierungen zur Bibel (Stuttgart, 1963), pp. 10 and 311, no. 6 (ill.). Hans-Martin Rotermund, trans. Shierry M. Weber, Rembrandt’s Drawings and Etchings for the Bible (Philadelphia and Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1969), pp. 11, 311, no. 6 (ill. p. 29). Deirdre C. Stam, Charles C. Cunningham, John M. Maxon, Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: A Symposium—Rembrandt and His Followers (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), pp. 107, 134, and 141. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970), pp. 144–145 (ill.). Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), pp. 116 , 164 no. 65, 165 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn / Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- c. 1660
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20.3 × 24.8 cm (8 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1953.36
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